European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3u.n.-Baghdad standoff continues United nations a the head of a . Weapons inspection team held hostage in Baghdad said Friday there was no sign iraqi officials were preparing to free his Crew even though a solution to the standoff had appeared imminent. The Security Council on thursday accepted an iraqi plan to free the inspectors who have the right to assess iraqis weapons of mass destruction under terms of the persian Gulf War cease fire. But the . Team Leader in Baghdad David Kay said Friday that iraqi authorities have made no move there to resolve the four Day old standoff. A a we be had absolutely no change and we be watched very closely for it a Kay said by satellite Telephone. A the guard Force is the same the attitude seems to be exactly the same. No improvement at All its very the 44-member . Team remained surrounded by scores of iraqi troops in a parking lot outside the iraqi atomic Energy commission. The showdown began tuesday after the iraqis demanded the inspectors turn Over documents detailing iraqis secret nuclear program. 5e British foreign minister Douglas Hurd said Saddam Hussein May be delaying the release for a Day or two but he added that the iraqi president risks conflict if he does not cooperate. If a the were to dig in and take action against . Teams and refuse to comply he knows very Well that he will be made to comply a Hurd told bbl radio from new York. Marlin Fitzwater White House press Secretary also questioned Saddam a actions. A a there a been a pattern of cheat and Retreat All the Way through this a Fitzwater said thursday. Under the iraqi plan inspectors will keep the documents photographs and videotapes while they and iraqi authorities Catalon the evidence diplomats said. Iraq had initially demanded that the team relinquish the documents but the inspectors refused. Kay said his team was getting ready for a solution. A a we be done All the preparatory work on the documents the video and the film. So we re ready to go. We be been working All morning about four hours with teams doing that. So we be done essentially at this Point everything we can do on our own a Kay said. On thursday the Security Council said it a deplores iraqis repeated violations of its obligations under . Resolutions demanding its cooperation with the destruction of its terror weapons. A statement said the Council a reiterates its demand that the inspectors. Be released immediately a but did no to object to a a joint inventory of documents and materials a in this particular encircled by iraqi troops the inspectors have struggled to keep their spirits High holding lotteries to make Calls Home and improvising touch football games said Kay an american. To pressure Iraq to comply with . Resolutions ending the Gulf War . Forces Are being sent to neighbouring saudi Arabia. The United states on wednesday began moving Patriot anti missile units to the persian Gulf in Case the Security Council orders military escorts for . Teams searching troops storm rebel held to Center Tbilisi .s.r. Apr georgian troops Loyal to president Oviad Samsak Hurdia seized an opposition National guard base outside the capital. The opposition reported casualties in fighting for the base but Samsak Hurdia a office said no shots were fired. The Gamsa Hurdia statement read by a worker at his press office denied a report by the soviet news Agency Tass that 60 people had died in the attack thursday night. Opposition sources had said about five people were killed. The conflicting reports could not be immediately reconciled. There have been conflicting reports of violence around Tbilisi since Gamsa Hurdia imposed a state of emergency wednesday to quash weeks of Street protests against him. Samsak Hurdia a critics accuse him of assuming dictatorial Powers and inciting ethnic violence. Both Gamsa Hurdia and the opposition Are anti communists who seek Independence from the soviet Union but the opposition seeks More rapid democratic Reform and says the president is a dictator. The Tass report quoted a National guard commander Tengiz Kito Vani. On thursday government forces encircled an opposition stronghold and demanded that the activists put Down their arms or face arrest. Electric Power was Cut and roads sealed around the stronghold a government television broadcast Center at 8 . That was the deadline imposed by Gamsa Hurdia for the rebels to turn in their weapons. The opposition seized the television studio sunday. On wednesday at least four people were killed and five injured in a predawn gun Battle. Following the clash Samsal Hurdia issued an ultimatum giving his opponents until 6 . Thursday to surrender their guns and leave the television Center or race arrest. As the deadline approached he sex rebels guard a to station from attack by troops Loyal to Gentian president Oviad tended it two hours. miners demand Leader s ouster Bucharest Romania apr thousands of angry Coal miners marched Friday on the presidential Palace after hurling gasoline bombs elsewhere in the capital in their drive to oust leaders they blame for ruining their lives. A if an institution is attacked with violence we cannot but respond with violence a warned president Ion Iliescu whose resignation the miners were demanding. Asked whether the Security forces would shoot he said Friday a we Are trying to avoid shooting but it depends. Troops should act to maintain Interior minister doru Viorel Ursu said in a statement published by the rompers news Agency that police a will take All measures to defend the fragile democracy in Premier Petre roman resigned thursday and protesters demanded Iliescu also quit because of the governments Tough austerity policies. Miners complain they cannot afford to feed their families because of High prices and Low wages. An estimated 5,000 miners who began rioting in the capital wednesday were moving toward Cotro Ceni Palace on Friday. Police were prepared to meet them. Inside the Palace government and opposition leaders debated forming a new coalition to placate the miners. Iliescu said the current government would remain until a new one could be named. On thursday protesters ransacked the parliament building and besieged the television Center a scene of fighting during the december 1989 revolution that toppled communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Roman called the unrest a a communist Coupe led by people who wanted to turn the clock Back on Reform. Three people died in riots wednesday and by thursday afternoon the number of injured had climbed to 284, the state news Agency rompers said. At 3 . Friday More clashes occurred around the television station and on Bucharest a downtown University Square for an hour. The police stopped at Metal barricades near the Square where the protesters hurled firebombs. Police fired tear Gas grenades to Clear the reportedly played psychological game with Mann London apr freed hostage Jack Mann who says he was kept chained and isolated during his 28-month ordeal was also subjected to psychological stress when his captors told him another British hostage was killed one of Mann a Sisters said thursday. A Jack said they told him Terry Waite was dead he had been shot a Madge meager said on bbl radio. A but he just did not believe Waite an envoy of the anglican Church who had been negotiating with the hostage takers is the last briton among the nine westerners missing and believed captive in Lebanon. He disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, but there has never been any report suggesting he was killed. Former British hostage John Mccarthy said when he was freed by his captors aug. 8 that Waite was alive. Mann 77, relished his third Day of Freedom thursday at a Royal air Force base at Lyneham 80 Miles West of London in the same vip suite used by Mccarthy after he was freed. The staff at Lyneham said Mann has bounced Back remarkably Well from his ordeal and has begun a full debriefing that would have been delayed if he had been too weak. A this spirits Are very High indeed. The medical team consider Jackie is sufficiently relaxed and settled for the full debriefing to begin a said station commander group capt. Ian Corbitt. Mann Stop priorities thursday were a haircut a visit to the base dentist new glasses and ordering a new Wristwatch to replace the one stolen by his captors according to base staff. In Middle East correspondent Brent Sadler who helped Sunnie Mann write a Book about her agonizing waiting for her husbands release visited the couple. A they Are continually chatting a almost like a honeymoon couple. Its wonderful to see a Sadler said. Mann also spoke on the Telephone with prime minister John major who pronounced him a in very Good the former hostage and his wife were invited to visit no. 10 Downing St
